MEP renting options
These are extremely hard to come by, IME. More or less the only charter possibility in my area is the flight school where I did my training. They hire out a DA42NG for 7,90 Euros/min. I really cannot justify that price to myself.
Compare that to a C172/G1000 that goes for a bit more than 3 Euros/min. It’s a pitty there are no offers in between.
Mooney_Driver wrote:
You never asked
Actually I did and I got a one time exception for 3 days (flying only on 2 of them) because I paid them a lot of money for my training. I am talking about my MEP renting options 
Vladimir wrote:
not possible with my current renting situation, they just don’t let you take the plane for days or a week without flying it all the time because they want to make money
Err. You never asked :)
Peter wrote:
Not sure about the €1000 tyre change… why so much?
This is rather what one can expect for a Citation tyre change.
Costs him almost 1000 Euros all-in, but hey, on a Cessna 340, you can’t even have one tyre changed for 1000 Euros
IMHO this revalidation cost/hassle is largely what demolished the piston twin rental scene, and driven the booming (well, was booming until some years ago) business in higher-end SEPs like the SR22.
Not sure about the €1000 tyre change… why so much?
boscomantico wrote:
flies the Seminole for the test, thus renewing his MEP and IR. Costs him almost 1000 Euros all-in, but hey, on a Cessna 340, you can’t even have one tyre changed for 1000 Euros…
I get that and I slowly come to understand the different options (thank you EuroGA). Combine that now with the desire to fly in holidays and maybe sometimes for business inside Europe for several days – not possible with my current renting situation, they just don’t let you take the plane for days or a week without flying it all the time because they want to make money. So what I am left with is sharing a airplane with some people (or financing one fully myself which is not an option for me) and normally earning people around me can probably afford an investment of say 70-100k and 20k per year but not 250k in the beginning. So SET is out of the question at the moment which leaves me with a SEP or a MEP and I find MEP a better option for me (with all the culprits discussed). Very similar thinking to ortac who started the thread.
Sorry, MEP of course.
A friend of mine is in exactly the same situation: flying only privately, but does have an ATPL and an MEP, and wants to keep this valid, should a good occasion for changing jobs come along. He goes to Stuttgart once a year (same place where he got his ATPL/MEP, of course) and flies the Seminole for the test, thus renewing his MEP and IR. Costs him almost 1000 Euros all-in, but hey, on a Cessna 340, you can’t even have one tyre changed for 1000 Euros…
@RobertL18C: Thanks, didn’t know that. I am still in my first year of MEP, so I haven’t done a revalidation yet.
boscomantico wrote:
The point is that if you are merely looking at keeping your SEP rating valid, there are much cheaper ways than by owning a C340!
(I suppose you mean MEP) I am looking at combining the two if possible. And again, $800k for a second hand SET (as an alternative) is a lot of money.
Vladimir the ten sectors only allow you to dispense with the navigation section in your annual MEP-SP revalidation. If you are revalidating both your IR and MEP in the same flight the navigation component is covered in the IR renewal.
Typically the absence of ten sectors adds around 20 minutes on the MEP annual revalidation, in the event you are doing your IR revalidation in the SIM.
How much prep is required for renewal may be worth checking on the forum? Conservatively, if you have no recent currency I would suggest one to two hours in the SIM, and one hour plus in the aircraft. A renewal typically may take longer.
